dc.contributor.author	Humble, Noreen
dc.contributor.author	Ellis, Jim
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-16T17:54:09Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-16T17:54:09Z
dc.date.issued	2025-01-15
dc.description.abstract	Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for alien life, the stories found in the shapes of constellations to the expansive imaginings of science fiction, there has always been life up there, at the very least, for our imaginations. Mythologies of Outer Space brings together academics and artists to explore diverse imaginings of outer space. It examines questions that, in a world where outer space is increasingly accessible, are no longer only science fiction. Is outer space terra nullius, open for settlement? What if there is life beyond earth? Will we repeat the mistakes of the colonial age on other planets? Should parts of outer space be protected, like nature reserves? What about resource extraction? Do celestial bodies, like the moon, have rights? Astronaut Robert Thirsk, Mi’kmaw astronomer Hilding Neilson, digital humanities scholar Chris Pak, and outer space archaeologist Alice Gorman, among others, are joined by artists including David Hoffos and Dianne Bos, literary scholars, art critics, scientists, and a poet to explore how humanity thinks about outer space in this joyful, curious book.
dc.identifier.isbn	9781773855882
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/120437
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	en
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
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dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Calgary Insitute for the Humanities ; 4
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dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	space
dc.subject	outer space
dc.subject	science fiction
dc.subject	poetry
dc.subject	space archaeology
dc.subject	indigenous outer space
dc.subject	terraforming
dc.subject	photography
dc.subject	film
dc.subject	science poetry
dc.subject	community forum
dc.title	Mythologies of Outer Space
dc.type	book	en
ucalgary.scholar.level	Faculty

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